Published 10:00 pm, Tuesday, May 24, 2005

The Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park has added a monumental Tony Smith sculpture to the list of splendors in the grass when the park opens on the waterfront next year.

Smith, who died in 1980, is probably best known today as the father of contemporary artist Kiki Smith, but in his heyday he was an important figure in lean and muscular post-WWII sculptural abstraction.

"Stinger," a 32-foot steel square with one side partially removed, was donated by the artist's family; Microsoft has contributed a grant for its care and installation.